The profession‘s negotiators have been very clear. NHS dentistry has been sitting at the bar of the last chance saloon for a while.
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As the professions representatives begin to worry that their post-election meeting with Wes Streeting will be looked back on as a high point, the dental headlines look very familiar.
Lord Toby Harris will complete his four year term on the council of the GDC and Chair of the Council in September 2025.
Cautious welcome or expression of concern? Three long established indemnity organisations have expressed differently expressed but in many ways consistent views on the latest changes to the GDC‘s Fitness to Practice process.
Many MP‘s have been asking for a dental school in their area believing that it is the solution to local access problems. One lucky group now appear to have been granted their wish, with a project receiving £1.5 million funding, and set to proceed.
It has been a tough few weeks for regulator bosses. The CQC may need to consider fitting a revolving door to their headquarters as yet another senior figure has announced that they will be leaving.
Senior GDPUK readers may recall seeing patients with complete upper dentures that had a central suction cup added to the fit surface to help secure them to the palate. Apparently they caused resorption and were associated with malignancy hence soon fell out of favour, but the odd example remained in service.
“O wad some Pow‘r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!” 1
When Robert Burns wrote these lines in 1786 he was contemplating how beneficial it would be for us to be able to see ourselves as others do. Insight, as the GDC might describe it.
“So why it is that children—some children—experience higher rates of tooth decay, and more importantly, what we can do about it? “
The question was posed by Donald Chi, professor and associate dean for research at the School of Dentistry at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is also a board certified paediatric dentist.
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